The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration, Clements Robert, Sir Markham. Published by Cambridge University Press, UK, 1921. First Edition. xii, 539pp. illustrated with black and white photos, frontispiece, text illustrations, maps including 2 which are fold-outs. Blue cloth boards with silver spine titles and illustration of silver ship to front board. Light wear to boards and edges, scratch to spine. Notes and toning to free endpaper, inner hinges lightly weakened, contents are otherwise in fine condition.
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Markham is well known as a geographer and historical writer. He is the author of nearly a dozen books on the history of exploration in Antarctica. His Lands of Silence is still an important history of Polar explorations, especially for Antarctica. Lands of Silence was highly acclaimed on publication and remains one of the best accounts of polar explorations
The Lands of Silence: A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration, Clements Robert, Sir Markham
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